Title: Plugins not installing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugins not installing

 *  [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/)
 * I installed wordpress last night and today noticed that about half of all plugins
   fail to install, even the featured ones. When i use the install option in the
   admin planel i get such this
 * “Installing Plugin: GD Star Rating 1.7.0
 * Downloading install package from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gd-star-rating.zip.&#8221](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gd-star-rating.zip.&#8221);
 * But then it doesn’t complete the installation.
 * I don’t know what kind of info you need of my installation aside of im running
   php4.5 and mysql5.
 * Thanks for the help!

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 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245943)
 * What happens after it says its downloading?
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245951)
 * It does absolutely nothing. I appreciate any of your ideas.
 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245952)
 * it could be a web server configuration problem, which then I would recommend 
   just manually downloading the plugin, unzipping it, then uploading it to the 
   wp-content/plugins/ directory.
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245959)
 * Hi,
 * If you are installing from wordpress admin panel then make sure that you have
   set 766 recursive permissions to wp-content directory.
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245965)
 * 1. It is 766. 🙂 At least one thing is right!
    2. Manual uploads are no better,
   wordpress recognizes it in the plugin menu, but when i click to activate it I
   get a 500 error. If i attempt to look at it in the editor, there is nothing there.
 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245970)
 * Actually, the plugins dir should be 755, not 766.
 * Try 755 instead.
 * If you’re getting 500 errors, I’d talk to your web host, it could be a bad setup.
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245971)
 * Yeah no go.
 * As for the 500, that’s what I was afraid of… talk about opening a whole can of
   worms. Are there any common causes for a 500 in this case?
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245972)
 * Could it be something with the .htaccess file? Would that cause some plugins 
   to work and not others?
 * My website domain takes me to the wordpress folder, which is within another folder.
   So instead of the domain name’s physical path point to “/wordpress” it points
   to “/foldername/wordpress”
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1245974)
 * Hi,
 * Check with these options too:
 * -> Disable all the plugins
    -> Remove all unwanted code from htaccess
 * Thanks.
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1246053)
 * Didn’t work either, so frustrating, but thanks for all the ideas!
 *  Thread Starter [sirschuster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirschuster/)
 * (@sirschuster)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1246056)
 * BTW, my comment rating plugin threw out this message in the control settings,
   does that give any information as to my issues?
 * `Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /homepages/*/***/htdocs/*****/
   wordpress/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787`

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-installing/#post-1246056)
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